Gehl v Canada Challenging Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act Culture Jennifer Leason (Keesis Sagay Evette

Jennifer Leason (Keesis Sagay Evette Ekwe: First Shining Rays of Sunlight Woman) and Norman Chartrand are both Salteaux-Metis Anishinaabek and members of Pine Creek Indian Band

Matriarchy or Mistake

Using interviews

the French and Indian War

she also examines alternative conceptualizations of sovereignty over land and law inherent in the Constitution

Gehl v Canada Challenging Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act Culture Jennifer Leason (Keesis Sagay EvetteA follow up to her successful Claiming Anishinaabe, Lynn Gehls latest book, Gehl v Canada, is the documentation of the her 34 year fight to change Canadas Indian Act policies regarding unknown and unstated paternity, a harmful, colonial legacy that has adversely affected generations of Indigenous women. It is also the celebration of Gehls tenacious, brave advocacy for Indigenous women and children in the face of colonial oppression. The paternity